[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Lothingland R.D.C.

  • Lothingland (Suffolk, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Lothingland R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report on the health of the Lothingland Rural District Council for the year 1966. The Registrar General’s mid year estimated population of 19,200 showed an increase of 680 over 1965? due mainly to the movement of people to the growing villages outside Gt. Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Southwold, but only small variations occurred among the statistics relating to births and deaths. Of the 106 notifications of infectious diseases received, 90 related to measles and all but 12 of these were in the first quarter of the year. In the summer holiday season, there was an explosive outbreak of sickness and diarrhoea at a loca] holiday camp, but happily this proved not to be due to food poisoning and the symptons disappeared overnight. Other infectious diseases were small in number and mild in character® At the time of writing this Report in mid~-1967? Mr. Groat, who had been Public Health Inspector in Lothingland for 14 years, had resigned and had been succeeded by Mr. Horne, and the section of the Report on the work of the Council as a local sanitary authority has been prepared by Mr. Horne* He has commented on improved, housing conditions in the District, and on such other matters as hygiene at holiday camps, the change in emphasis on meat inspection at slaughterhouses, and the problems which remain with regard to sewerage and sewage disposal in some parts of the Districto While there remain some ‘'pockets” of unpleasantness, in general the public health features of the District are improving and the community services are satisfactory. I am grateful to the Public Health Department staff at all levels for tlieir help during the year. I express my thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, and to the Members of the Council, for the attention given to and interest taken in the work of the Health Department. I have the honour to be, Your obedient Servant, ARTHUR C. GEE, Medical Officer of Health., August, 1967